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National Gambling Amendment Bill stakeholder inputs
26 Feb 2019
The Committee was informed that the Bill has three focus areas: the repositioning of the National Gambling Board (NGB) to the National Gambling Regulator (NGR); the extension of National Central Electronic Monitoring System (NCEMS) to all modes of gambling; and the effectiveness of the National Gambling Policy Council (NGPC). Comments ...
NCOP Economic Development & Trade
Foreign Service Bill: DIRCO briefing
20 Feb 2019
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation provided context for the Foreign Service Bill coming into being. The reality was that SA did not have a legislative mechanism to support optimally the mandate of the DIRCO to achieve the country’s foreign policy objectives. One of the objectives of the Bill ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: Department response to negotiating mandates (continued)
19 Feb 2019
The Committee in its previous meeting had decided that the Parliamentary Legal Advice Office, the Office of the Chief State Law Adviser, the Department of Transport and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) should meet to deal with the constitutional issues raised by SALGA. The Committee had hoped that ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: legal opinion on constitutionality; Department response to Negotiating Mandates
12 Feb 2019
Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Advice Office pointed out that the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) believed that the approach taken in the Bill fundamentally changed the existing National Land Transport Act in ways which it believed were inconsistent with both the Constitution and sound public transport management. The relevant ...
NCOP Economic Development & Trade
National Gambling Amendment Bill [B27B-2018]: DTI briefing
30 Jan 2019
The Committee received a briefing on the National Gambling Amendment Bill which was an important piece of legislation that the National Council of Provinces, and the provinces, would have to engage extensively. There was an urgency to the work of the Committee which had to ensure that provinces conducted public ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7B-2016]: Negotiating Mandates
29 Jan 2019
The Chairperson at the outset of the meeting clarified that the present meeting was only to consider the provincial negotiating mandates of the provinces on the Bill. Deliberations by the Committee on the provincial negotiating mandates as well as responses by the Department of Transport thereto would only take place ...
NCOP Economic Development & Trade
National Credit Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions
28 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider written submissions on the National Credit Amendment Bill [B30-2018], which was described as a debt intervention bill (DIB). Debt counselling was costly and it was not provided to a certain segment of consumers. That had emerged after the Committee had consulted with debt counsellors, where ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Committee Legacy Report
27 Nov 2018
The Committee considered and adopted several outstanding minutes.
The Committee decided not to consider its Legacy Report and Annual Report because the documents were not complete. Both will be considered the following week.
NCOP Economic Development & Trade
Department of Tourism 2017/18 Annual Report
31 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 Annual Report.
The NDT had managed to obtain an unqualified audit report with no matters of emphasis but there was however findings by the Auditor General of SA. On the financials of the NDT, total ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
AARTO Bill [B38B-2015]: final mandates
30 Oct 2018
Delegates presented their respective final mandates on the Bill to the Committee. The Eastern Cape Province, the Free State Province, the KwaZulu-Natal Province, the Limpopo Province, the Mpumalanga Province and the Northern Cape Province voted in favour of the Bill. The Western Cape Province was not in support of the ...